I have found out that most atheist know the bible better than most theist. I have three examples
Genisis :The story of Adam and Eve
Theist will say;It's about how man screwed everything up by disobeying god
I say;It about god telling Adam and Eve fuck right and wrong
do what I tell you
Cain and Able:
Theist will say it a story about Cain's jealousy of his brother
caused him to murder his brother and mark him for life
I say it about how god love the rivalry between the two and how he loved making Cain angry by turning down his offering and causing Cain to make the Blood offering he wanted.
Isay that because look at what happened to Cain afterwards
He was blessed by god
Tower of Babel
Thiest say : It about man getting to big for his britches
I say : It about god's fear of man technology and him no longer needing god and god's fear of him out doing god.With the Internet that seems to be coming thru. Since we can all communicate thru it.Unless a virus turns all of it into Babel
Summing up the babble right here, right now: Bah Humbug!
Even as a small child, I never thought that these Bible stories were anything more than fiction. I was just baffled as to why the grown ups around me thought the characters in them were moral or sensible.
@LetzGetReal well these days with Artificial Insemination virgin birth is possible. I have a ton of goats to prove it! Hmmmm, our new messiah is a goat....BAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What is incomprehensible to me is that if I really believed there was a book containing information that would make the difference between spending eternity in either bliss or torment I would make sure I knew that book inside out and upside down and teach myself to read it in the original.
Maybe those people exist and they either come out as zealots or sceptics, but most Christians don't fit the bill. I assume they're just intellectually lax.
It was very obvious to me that if God were real then he is just using us as an amusement for himself. We are his video game.
There was a Farside cartoon showing the typical image of god sitting at a computer screen with a guy walking under a safe on a rope. Gods finger was hovering over a button marked "Smite". Caption was "God at his Computer". Very funny.